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Pragmatics

The study of how linguistic expressions are interpreted in context. (pragmatics)

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Pre-editing

Work done on a source text to prepare it for translation. Examples: Creating and correcting a preliminary version of a word-processing document that had to be created from an original picture or scan with the help of optical character recognition (OCR) software. Creating and correcting a preliminary version of a…

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Prefix

An affix that is attached to the left of a stem. (morphology)

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Prescriptivism

Viewing, measuring, and explaining language as it is prescribed by grammarians and language rule makers (dictionary publishers, editors, grammar book writers, government language council members, and others) of the time, and without regard to how the language may or may not be actually spoken and written by many speakers of…

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:34PM

Presupposition

A sentence S presupposes S’ if S’ is entailed by both S and its negation. The presupposition of a sentence remains intact after the sentence is negated. (semantics)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:34PM

pro

A phonologically null DP that is both theta-marked and case-marked. (syntax)

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PRO

A phonologically null DP that is theta-marked, but does not receive case. (syntax)

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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 @ 1:35PM

Progressive Aspect

Progressive aspect encodes an on-going action and emphasizes the dynamic nature of the event. (semantics)

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Progressive Assimilation

A sound segment assimilates to its preceding segment. (phonology)

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Projection Principle

Lexical information is represented at all stages of the syntactic derivation. (syntax)

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